City reorganizes code enforcement under new name

Brownwood City Manager Bobby Rountree announced the reorganization of the city’s Code Enforcement Department.

It has been been reorganized and renamed as the Development Services Depart-ment, Rountree said in an e-mail to the Bulletin on Tuesday.

The intent is to “improve the effectiveness of the department and utilize existing city employees to concentrate more in the area of code enforcement,” Rountree said in the e-mail.

The Development Services Administrator is current staff engineer, Kevin Pate.

The Development Services Department is responsible for building, electrical, mechanical, and plumbing permits, administering city codes, and code enforcement of substandard structures, junk vehicles, tall grass and weeds and open storage.